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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 8 – Vision of the Ram, He-Goat & Little Horn
appeared unto him at the first,” is doubtless

the vision of the seventh chapter, which he

had in the first year of Belshazzar.

VERSE 2. And I saw in a vision; and it came to

pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the

palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I

saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

As verse 1 states the time when, this verse

gives the place where, the vision was given.

Shushan, as we learn from Prideaux, was the

metropolis of the province of Elam. This was

then in the hands of the Babylonians, and

there the king of Babylon had a royal palace.

Daniel, as minister of state, and employed

about the king’s business, was accordingly in

that place. Abradates, viceroy or prince of

Shushan, revolted to Cyrus, and the province

was joined to the Medes and Persians; so that,